What is the longest home run ever hit?

In 1987, Joey Meyer of the minor league Denver Zephyrs hit the longest verifiable home run in professional baseball history. The home run was measured at a distance of 582 feet (177 m) and was hit inside Denver's Mile High Stadium.
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What is the longest home run in MLB?

Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this ball an astonishing 582 FEET!
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Has anyone ever hit a 600 foot home run?

No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. A tremendous blast by any standards. In a single game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league players hit in a career!
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What was Babe Ruth's farthest home run?

At one time Tampa had a downtown sports stadium named Plant Field, which would host Spring Training baseball games. It was here, on April 4, 1919, in a game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Giants, that Babe Ruth hit his longest home run ever -- 587 feet.
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What is the shortest home run ever hit?

Shortest Home Run Ever Hit

Playing for a minor league team called the Minnesota Millers back in 1900, Andy Oyler hit the shortest home run in the history of the entire world. The home run traveled only 24 inches—that's right, two feet! On a rainy day in Minnesota, Oyler made solid contact and took off to first base.
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What is the fastest pitch ever thrown?

Fastest pitch ever thrown

As a result, Aroldis Chapman is credited with throwing the fastest pitch in MLB history. On Sept. 24, 2010, Chapman made MLB history. Then a rookie relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, the fireballer unleashed a fastball clocked at 105.1 mph by PITCH/fx.
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What is the farthest baseball ever thrown?

Gorbous holds the current world record for longest throw of a baseball, 135.89m (445 feet, 10 inches). The feat took place on August 1, 1957, while he was playing for the Omaha Cardinals of the American Association.
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What is the rarest baseball play?

Unassisted triple plays

The rarest type of triple play, and one of the rarest events of any kind in baseball, is for a single fielder to complete all three outs. There have only been 15 unassisted triple plays in MLB history, making this feat rarer than a perfect game.
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Who has caught the most no-hitters?

The record for most no-hitters caught by a catcher is four, a record shared by Boston Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek and Philadelphia Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz.
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Has there ever been a 27 pitch game?

Necciai is best remembered for the unique feat of striking out 27 batters in a nine-inning game, which he accomplished while playing with the Class-D Appalachian League team, the Bristol Twins, on May 13, 1952. He is the only pitcher ever to do so in a nine-inning, professional-league game.
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What is the most perfect game ever pitched?

No pitcher has ever thrown more than one. The perfect game thrown by Don Larsen in game 5 of the 1956 World Series is the only postseason perfect game in major league history and one of only two postseason no-hitters.
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Who hit 500 foot home runs?

Giancarlo Stanton: 504 feet, Aug.

Stanton belted the first 500-foot homer in Statcast™ history by extending way up the Coors Field bleachers in the left-center power gap. It took a Stanton-ian combination of a 115.8-mph exit velocity and a very low 18-degree launch angle for Stanton to reach that part of the park.
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Did Mickey Mantle hit the longest home run ever?

Two years to the day after his MLB debut – on April 17, 1953 – future Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle hit one of the furthest recorded home runs in history. It was that day when the term “tape-measure home run” was born, as one of the game's best power hitters hit a colossal 565-foot shot out of Griffith Stadium.
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Has anyone hit for the home run cycle?

A home run cycle has never occurred in MLB, which has only had 18 instances of a player hitting four home runs in a game.
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Who threw the slowest pitch in MLB history?

Utility player Brock Holt used a few eephus pitches during a relief appearance for the Texas Rangers on August 7, 2021, one registering the slowest MLB pitch for a called strike since at least 2008 (the pitch-tracking era) at 31.1 miles per hour (50.1 km/h).
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Who has the slowest fastball in MLB?

1. Brock Holt, Texas Rangers, 31 mph. We start our countdown with the slowest pitch of all during the Statcast era began (officially in time for the 2015 season after the technology was installed in all 30 MLB parks).
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How fast can Babe Ruth pitch?

To gauge power, Ruth swung a 54-ounce bat 75 mph, a measure that flabbergasted researchers.
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How far was Barry Bonds farthest home run?

The Bonds HR that left Salmon awestruck
  • Bonds' ball went into a tunnel in right field and was estimated at 485 feet -- definitely up there as one of the longest of its time.
  • Bonds' response to Salmon's dugout exclamation? ...
  • "You haven't seen a lot of my home runs.
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How far did Babe Ruth hit a baseball?

Babe Ruth, 575 Feet (1921)
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Has anyone ever hit a homerun to center field at Polo Grounds?

So the Polo Grounds' hitter/pitcher alignment depended on where the ball was hit. Only four people ever hit home runs into center field: Luke Easter in a Negro Leagues game, Hank Aaron and Lou Brock, on consecutive days, and Joe Adcock.
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Who has the most walk off home runs?

Jim Thome holds the MLB record with 13 career walk-off homers. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Jimmie Foxx, Stan Musial and Frank Robinson shared the record at 12 before Thome surpassed them. Mantle also hit one in the postseason, and Thome hit none.
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What is the most pitches thrown in one at bat?

Belt's 21-pitch at-bat is the longest on record since 1988, as far back as the data is available, but his regular-season feat was surpassed in a Spring Training game by the Mets' Luis Guillorme.
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Who has thrown the most no-hitters in MLB history?

The pitcher who holds the record for the most no-hitters, with seven in his career, is Nolan Ryan. His first two came with the California Angels in 1973, one on May 15th and the other on July 15th. He had two more with the Angels; the third on September 28, 1974 and the fourth June 1, 1975.
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Did Randy Johnson throw a perfect game?

On Tuesday, May 18, 2004, Randy Johnson, pitching for the Major League Baseball (MLB) Arizona Diamondbacks, threw a perfect game, beating the Atlanta Braves 2–0 at Turner Field in Atlanta before a crowd of 23,381.
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